Last week we finally saw real snow \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just snow showers and flurries on and off, Thursday and Friday, and it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stick on the ground. And Saturday morning we awoke to see a dusting of snow on the ground. It all melted in a few hours, but it was nice to see! It did do in the remaining brown-eyed susans. We still have flowers left, on the big old sedum I inherited when we bought the house \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no wonder its other name is “live forever”!<\/p>\n
We saw a pair of whisky jacks (Gray jays or Canada jays) on the weekend \u00e2\u20ac\u201c checking out the buffet table at their winter resort. They like suet, but we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be putting out feeders until there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s snowcover or we know the bears have gone to bed, whichever comes first, and we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be putting out the suet feeder until it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s staying below freezing in the daytime \u00e2\u20ac\u201c otherwise the balcony just gets too, well, aromatic. And that would definitely attract bears!<\/p>\n
The other day one of our chickadees figured out how the little seed feeder works \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there he was, hanging upside down and pecking at the seed hole! I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell if he managed to get anything out (and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m referring to him in the masculine). I am putting out a handful of sunflower seeds on the railing from time to time, although I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m quite sure there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lots of natural food out there in the woods still!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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